For over a 100 years the Automotive Industry has been building engines, and only recently have engineers begun to understand the oxidization processes in the automotive cylinder. The basic principle is that energy is added to the O2 (oxygen molecule) which advances it to a configuration with a higher reaction energy, that of O3 (ozone).
Several years ago, the industry-wide decision was made adopt the the so-called “Lean Burn”, which increases power, fuel economy, and reduce Carbon monoxide. but the immediately apprarent downside of flooding the cylinder with more air than is needed for stoichiometric combustion is that undesirable compounds are produced, including NOx( (nitrogen oxygen compounds) which react with VOCs in the atmosphere to produce O3 through the Leighton Cycle. In addition, some O3 is produced directly in the cylinder.
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